They used to steal glass insulators
Alongside the railroads
Turned them into knives
Red knives
White knives
Blue knives
I follow their example
Stealing Georgetown blue flint
From outside the electric
Sick of red lies
White lies
Blue lies
Told to believe everything
but our own
eyes
To ignore
your tax dollars
extinguishing innocent life
Bombs falling in the darkness of night
on fathers, sons, daughters
and wives
Each with a story, a name, and a right
to live in a world where we
value their lives
Not just another thermal image
vaporized by drone
strikes
A sick society ruled by views and likes
Wrongs and rights decided by algorithm
Trade vanity for sympathy?
Who are we if we abandon empathy?
Absolutely empty
How do you say it simply?
We don’t survive this century.
